As a Mage, I Only Want to Pursue Truth

A mage accidentally drifts to Blue Star. The intelligent life on Blue Star cannot influence reality by manipulating dark matter, thus the mage loses their casting ability.

In order to recover...

Chapter 49 Biological Computers

Zheng Li's bodily senses gradually improved, and he knew this was a sign that his will was reviving.

The ability of the senses to accurately map the various aspects of the material world into the brain is a fundamental quality of a mage. The reason why Earth's biomedical development is slow is that they can only use tools to observe the details of the microscopic world.

For mages, they only need to rely on their senses to understand the world down to the cellular level and even more microscopic levels.

Therefore, the Mage Alliance is far superior to Earth in terms of biology.

A month has passed since Zheng Li received the artificial brain implanted, and he has finally regained his spellcasting ability.

Only a portion of the 17th floor belonging to Zheng Li is a sterile environment; other areas are regular office areas.

"Light Spell!"

Zheng Li constructed a spellcasting model in his mind through willpower. When the light appeared out of thin air at the location specified in the spatial coordinate system of his mind, he knew he had succeeded.

He silently thought that it had taken him two years to regain his spellcasting ability, which was quite fast for a mage who had unfortunately wandered to other planes.

Then he cast another classic mage spell, item teleportation.

The glass in Zheng Li's hand landed steadily on the desk ten meters away.

Since the soul, body, and memory cannot be transferred simultaneously, the mages' previous research could only achieve the transfer of two at most, such as the soul and body, the soul and memory, or the body and memory.

But it's alright if these three lack a physical body, since they still have a soul and memories; you are still you.

However, if the destination you are teleported to does not have a physical body, then you will only have a soul and memories there, and they will not exist for a long time.

Therefore, mages almost never teleport themselves.

However, item teleportation is a very common spell. As long as you know the coordinates of the two ends of the teleportation, you can achieve stable teleportation.

After regaining his spellcasting ability, Zheng Li was finally able to proceed to the next step. Many of the knowledge and techniques in his knowledge base were impossible to realize without his spellcasting ability.

What is most important to him right now is the biocomputer, which he has been unable to realize before because he cannot cast spells.

The concepts of biological computers and DNA data storage were proposed by scientists on Earth a long time ago.

The DNA strand of carbon-based life is composed of four bases: A, G, C, and T. It can store data through encoding, which is equivalent to a quaternary data structure.

Moreover, DNA has many advantages as a storage medium, such as its long lifespan, which is far longer than that of a hard disk.

We can still find the DNA of animals that went extinct thousands of years ago today, but can the information on your hard drive be preserved for more than a hundred years? Even if you preserve it carefully.

DNA also has a high information density; the DNA strand data storage capacity of a single human cell is 3GB.

In 2012, scientists in England compiled 739KB of data into DNA, including all of Shakespeare's sonnets.

In 2019, the American catalog company wrote 16G of wikis into DNA.

Similar to brain-computer interfaces, DNA technology is one that has been making headlines for a long time, but has yet to see commercial applications.

Because Earth's DNA storage technology has many limitations, data is stored in a disordered manner on DNA molecules; reading data from this DNA is also random.

We read or write data from the disk based on an "index," but data is unordered whether it's written to or extracted from the disk.

This is the biggest obstacle preventing DNA storage from being implemented to date.

Scientists on Earth are even more at a loss when it comes to the large-scale conversion of bioelectrical signals and electrical signals.

DNA storage is impossible, so biological computers are out of the question.

Zheng Li had already cultivated the biological computers. They were an entire group of krill, and the basic units of the biological computers, from network infrastructure to processors to storage, were all located in the krill cells.

However, these biological computers have not been enchanted and cannot be used like real biological computers.

After Zheng Li regained his spellcasting ability, he cast spells on these krill in batches.

The modified krill are individual seeds, which Zheng Li will release into the Pacific Ocean.

The reason Zheng Li chose the seaside location rather than the central CBD for the R&D center in Singapore was to make it easier to release these seeds into the sea.

After being released into the Pacific Ocean, the krill will be digested by various marine organisms.

Then the marine organisms will be transformed into biological computers from the seeds.

Small fish eat krill, big fish eat small fish, and after the small fish that has eaten the krill is eaten by the big fish, the big fish's body will also be transformed into a biological computer.

Zheng Li obtained various kinds of organisms distributed in different places in the ocean through this method, and used them as his biological computer.

The computing power of this group of krill is currently equivalent to only 10 IBM mainframes of the zEnterprise type.

The storage capacity is only about three thousand TB of data.

After completing the modification of the biological computer, Zheng Li used teleportation technology to travel to the Pacific Ocean not far from the building.

Since the ability to cast spells has just been restored, the teleportation distance cannot be too far.

Then Zheng Li took the cloned human, created using his own cells, out of the incubator.

With the ability to cast spells, cultivating artificial standardized demon brains is quite simple; in just two hours, a standardized demon brain is cultivated.

He could even mass-produce standardized magic brains.

Then, the standardized demonic brain was implanted into the clone's body.

Zheng Li then matched his own brain with the clone's brain, so that he could remotely control the body without delay.

"Finally, I feel a little safer," Zheng Li thought.

It's unrealistic for a mage to physically withstand a Gatling gun, let alone a nuclear bomb.

Zheng Li's task is to conceal himself, with his remotely controlled clones in the open while he remains hidden behind the scenes.

After completing all the preparations, Zheng Li controlled himself to transform into the face of an ordinary middle-aged second-generation Chinese, even changing his skin color to dark, and then changed into clothes commonly seen in Singapore.

Zheng Li left the building of the Kechuang Bio Lion City R&D Center with some cash on his person.

It's 7 p.m. at the R&D center now, and most of the security guards have already gone home; only a few are still on duty.

Zheng Li casually cast a forgetting spell, and after a few minutes they remembered nothing.

One of the reasons we chose Singapore was its excellent research and development environment, where we could buy all kinds of research equipment.

Another reason is the convenience of traveling to Southeast Asia from here. If you want to hide yourself, Southeast Asia is the best choice.

Southeast Asia is a mixed bag, with a clear division between the upper and lower classes, and the upper class's control over the lower class is significantly weaker than that of some East Asian countries.

As for why they don't go to places like Europe and America, I don't need to elaborate. Over the years, many Chinese scientists in America have been investigated, and quite a few have even died mysteriously.